Maybellene
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'Maybellene' by Chuck Berry Album: Rock, Rock, Rock Released: 1955 US Chart: 5 Ranked as the 81st greatest song of all time The second best song of 1955 by Acclaimed Music In 1999, National Public Radio included it in the "NPR 100 |
Lyrics of Maybellene
Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh Maybelline , why can't you be true
You done started doin' the things you used to do
As I was motorvaton over the hill
I saw Maybelline in a Coup de Ville
A Cadillac arollin' on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' about ninetyfive
She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side to side
Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh Maybelline , why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
The Cadillac pulled up to a hundred and four
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rainwater blowin' all under my hood
I know that I was doin' my motor good
Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
The motor cooled down the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
The Cadillac sittin' like a ton of lead
A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybelline at the top of the hill
Maybelline, why can't you be true
Oh Maybelline, why can't you be true
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
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Artist Biography
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Berry, very well-known as Chuck Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Chuck Berry is one of the trailblazers of rock and roll music and one of the most prominent artists in rhythm-and-blues in 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
Berry began to sparkle as a guitarist for a range of bands as he had been playing the blues since his teens. In 1955 Berry recorded an adaptation of "Ida Red", "Maybellene", of which over million copies were sold, and which even reached #1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart and #5 on Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart. Towards the end of June 1956, his song "Roll Over Beethoven" reached #29 on the Billboard Top100 chart.
Further, he also starred as a visitor on ABC’s The Guy Mitchell Show, following his hit song "Rock 'n' Roll Music". His strikes persisted from 1957 to 1959, with achieving over dozens of singles during this period, which even included the top 10 U.S. hits "School Days," "Rock and Roll Music,""Sweet Little Sixteen," and "Johnny B. Goode." The song-‘Johnny B. Goode’, reached #8 on the Billboard pop chart, and remains one of Berry's best known songs.
In 1958, Berry’s performance on "Sweet Little Sixteen" at the Newport Jazz Festival was included in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day. Later after his release from prison, ( Chuck Berry was sent to Prison from 1959-63) he recommenced recording in 1964-65 and positioned six singles in the U.S. Hot 100, comprising "No Particular Place To Go" (#10), "You Never Can Tell" (#14), and "Nadine" (#23). In 1979, Chuck Berry performed at The White House and also, released Rockit for Atco Records, his last studio album to date.
Berry achieved a number of firsts like he was the first songwriter and performer in 1955 and was also among the first musicians to be included into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and also the first guitarist singer who reached the charts. In 2000, he obtained Kennedy Center Honors while in 2004; he was ranked #5 by Rolling Stone on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. There was a feather in his cap when his three songs, "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", "Rock and Roll Music" were included in the 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and when he was ranked 6th on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest guitarists of All Time.
